{"id":177639,"date":"2025-12-06T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:09:07","slug":"shopping-through-a-k-shaped-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177639\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping through a K-shaped holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As another holiday season kicked off on Black Friday, finding the perfect gift is top of mind for many. But how much will <a class=\"externallink\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/consumer-economy-inflation-trump-tariffs-47d6cc81d0138d352ee3f9425c4bc844\">weary American consumers<\/a> be willing to spend this year? Based on early data \u2026 <a class=\"externallink\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2025\/11\/29\/black-friday-online-sales-up-nearly-10-from-last-year-study-shows\/\">it\u2019s a lot!<\/a> Marketplace\u2019s Kristin Schwab joins Kimberly to explain why the K-shaped economy may explain the contradiction and why AI is making its way into Americans\u2019 shopping habits. Plus, we\u2019ll play a round of Half Full\/Half Empty!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we talked about on the show today:<\/p>\n<p>Missed Giving Tuesday? It&#8217;s always a great time to become a Marketplace investor. Give now:\u00a0<a class=\"interallink\" href=\"https:\/\/support.marketplace.org\/smart-sn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/support.marketplace.org\/smart-sn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As another holiday season kicked off on Black Friday, finding the perfect gift is top of mind for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-177639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}